12:01 AM,
Nov. 9, 2013

Longtime ABC News anchor, Sam Donaldson walking to the Georgetown Court House for his trial on a DUI charge from last December in Lewes.

Written by

James Fisher
The News Journal

When Sam Donaldson was acquitted of a DUI charge Friday, he stood and strode over to the Lewes police officer who'd arrested him last December during a traffic stop.

"You did your duty as you saw fit," Donaldson, 79, who has interviewed U.S. presidents and world leaders as a reporter and anchor for ABC News since 1967, solemnly told Pfc. Katie Couchman. "I bear no animus toward you whatsoever."

Donaldson was acquitted of driving under the influence and making an improper lane change in a Court of Common Pleas trial that lasted for more than five hours on Friday. ...